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TART Challenge - Round 5 - Snakes on a Plane (14)
Completion PostTask: Task 10 - 9. Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task.
Series selected: Penny Reid's Winston Brothers
Book: Beard in Hiding
Date Read: 5/15
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 272
How it fits: Winston Brothers #4.5
Completion PostTask: Task 10 - 9. Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task.
Series selected: Penny Reid's Winston Brothers
Book:
Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid
Date: 5/16
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 406/GR
How it fits: Winston Brothers #2
Completion Post ➺ LaurLaTask 10
Task: 9. Each player reads a book in the same series
Book: Truth or Beard
Pages: 392 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: #1 Wintson Brothers series
Date Read: 05.15 ★★★★
Completion PostTask 10 - 9. Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task.
Series selected: Penny Reid's Winston Brothers
Beauty and the Mustache by Penny Reid
Pgs: 387
Date Read: 5/16
Rating: 4*
How It Fits: #0 Winston Brothers
I am not checking completions, hopefully tomorrow. 😊Here is your next task!
Task 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
Books selected for this task need to be set outside the US. You can use the setting in the book details on the main book page, the title, the precis, tags or lists to qualify your book. Remember to let me know how you know the book qualifies with links and any other necessary information in your completion posts. I need to know where to look to confirm your books! Books can be set anywhere outside the US, this is not a team decision.
I have The Galaxy and the Ground Within (X in title for Prison Riot!). Depending on if we need another one after that, I have Further Observations of Lady Whistledown.
Completion PostTask 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau
Date: 5/17
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 248 per GR
How it fits: from the precis: When small-town engineer Amy Sharpe inherits a house in Toronto, she decides it’s the perfect opportunity to start over and go back to school. It's also MPG Canada.
Completion Post ➺ LaurLaTask 11
Task: 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US
Book: The Awakening
Pages: 362 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: set in Scotland - from the precis: In reality, when Christine found his remote Scottish castle, it was to persuade the Immortal warrior to help repel the darkness spreading around the world.
Date Read: 05.17 ★★★★
Hey LaurLa, MK is going to want to know where you got the info that the book fits and ask you to put it in your completion.
Stacie wrote: "Hey LaurLa, MK is going to want to know where you got the info that the book fits and ask you to put it in your completion."Thanks!
Completion PostTask 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
Book: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Date Read: 5/18
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 290
How it fits: Set on the planet Gora - from the precis: When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait...
Completion PostTask 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Date Read: 5/18
Rating: 4*
Pages: 238
How It Fits: Set in Japan - from precis "Side by side, they cruise around Japan through the changing seasons, visiting Satoru's old friends."
Completion PostTask 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Date Read: 5/18
Rating: 4*
Pages: 469
How It Fits: Set in Paris - from precis "So begins a journey which leads Grace through the streets of Paris and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses."
Completion PostTask 11 - 39. Read 6 books set outside of the US.
Book: The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown
Date Read: 5/20
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 400
How it fits: From the precis - "...a concerned groom-to-be rushes back to London to win his lady's heart once and forever,..."
Also Tagged England by 12 people on first page of tags.
Thanks Laura! just FYI, I've got a work trip that's going to keep me pretty much away from a computer and down time all of Tuesday and the majority of Wednesday.
Here is your next task!Task 12 - 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover.
Books selected for this task need to have a hat on the cover. You can use any edition's cover to qualify. Please include the qualifying cover in your completion post. Any kind of hat will work for this task. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.
1500 pages! That's a lot of hats! Let me see what I've got.
I have not a single hat checked out from KU!I have:
- 302 pages
- 334 pages (it does look like he's wearing a hat, right?) (392 pages per Amazon, though).
- 238 pages per Amazon, but needs to be added to book page.I can for sure read 2 of them, starting with Delinquent.
I have ---382 pp
People We Meet On Vacation
or
if the covering on her head counts384 pp
First Lady
384 pp
Lion in the Valley
Does a hoodie count, even if doesn't have it pulled up?
LaurLa wrote: "I have ---382 pp
People We Meet On Vacation
or if the covering on her head counts384..."
My third one is a hoodie. But he does have the hood up. You can see just a little bit of the hood on the cover, so I would ask.
The hat doesn't have to be on the edition you read!ETA: Which is a good reminder to myself. I just checked
out from the library. And this edition exists!
- 385 pages
Laura wrote: "The hat doesn't have to be on the edition you read!"Right, which is why I showed the editions where I found a hat vs the kindle edition I would read.
I'm reading one right now with a hat. I may DNF it though, we'll see. I have a back up
Completion PostTask 12 - 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover.
Maneuver by Chelle Bliss
Date: 5/21
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 270 per GR
How it fits: He's wearing a hat
Total: 270/1500
Completion PostTask 12 - 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover.
Book:
DelinquentDate Read: 5/22
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 302
How it fits: She's wearing a beanie
Total: 572/1500
Completion Post ➺ LaurLaTask 12
Task: 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover
Book: People We Meet On Vacation
Pages: 382 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: hat on this edition cover
Date Read: 05.22 ★★★★
Total: 954/1500
Completion PostTask: 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover
If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Date: 5/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 320 per GR
How it fits: he's wearing a cowboy hat
Total: 1274/1500
Louise wrote: "Found 
237pgs
413"Which are you reading? If the first one, I'll still do Sir Richard. If the second one, we won't need Sir Richard to get to our 1500.
ETA: Never mind. My brain saw 1200 and 200, and forgot that the 74 and the 37 might make up the last 100. :)
Completion PostTask: 86. Read at least 1500 pages in books with a hat on the cover
Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy
Date Read: 5/23
Rating: 3*
Pages: 273pgs
How It Fits: She is wearing a hat
Total: 1511/1500
Here is your next task!Task 13 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
Books selected for this task need to be initially published in a year one member of the team joined RRRC (not GR), the teams decide which member. You can find the year you joined RRRC on the members page for the group. Make sure you use the initial publication date for this task. If there is a date listed at the top of the editions page use it, otherwise I will be looking for the earliest dated English language edition regardless of format for the qualification. Please include the selected teammate, the year they joined RRRC and the initial publication date of you chosen books in your completion posts.
Looking at Stacie’s previous post, looks like our options are 2013, 2017, 2021.I vote 2021.
Laura wrote: "Looking at Stacie’s previous post, looks like our options are 2013, 2017, 2021.I vote 2021."
I JUST finished 2 2021 books... sigh.
2013 works best for me but I can actually do any. But I have other books I need to read first....
I can do any but have a couple of others I need to finish first
I'm limited in what I have access to until Thursday. I know for sure I have 2021 on there but that's all I know for sure.
So what year? will look on my Kindle to see what I might have.
I still vote 2021. 2017 would be my second choice.
I won't get to a 2021 fast. The one I have left on my TBR for May is 500+ pages. And while I'm looking forward to reading it, I have others I need to read first. This one just doesn't work for other challenges at the moment.
I can do 2021 and start tonight. If I can stay awake
Completion PostTask 13 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
Year: 2021
Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam
Date: 5/25
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 320 per GR
How it fits: published May 2021
Completion PostTask 13 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
Year: 2021
Book: The Bone Scroll
Date Read: 5/26
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 341
How it fits: published 8/24/21
(Kindle edition doesn't have page #s. Amazon shows 372 pages, if that's what I should use instead?
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Scroll-El...)
I'll have another one done tomorrow. Is anyone else planning a second one? I know it was my preferred year, so I can easily do a third.
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